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Thirteen scientists got together at Oak Ridge National Lab’s Climate Change Science Institute to discuss the role of root carbon in long-term soil carbon pools. The goal of this workshop was to develop a conceptual framework to harmonize soil carbon and root trait data. This workshop, titled ‘Linking Belowground Traits and Soil Carbon Storage on a… More

Written by Jen Harden I was inspired to combine my personal vacation to Chile with a trip that Julie Loisel had planned for peat sampling, so we met up in Patagonia near Puerto Natales in May 2018. Have a look at my interview with Julie: https://youtu.be/il1KCMFXX5Y This little bog was cored by Julie’s students… More

Led by ISCN data co-ordinator Kathe Todd-Brown, the purpose of the Soil Organic Carbon Data Rescue and Harmonization Repository (SOC-DRaHR) is to collect harmonization scripts for data sets related to soil carbon. Find out more and contribute at: https://github.com/ISCN/SOC-DRaHR

ISCN all-hands meeting 2017 ISCN’s second annual all-hands meeting was held on Dec 10, 2017 in New Orleans. Attended by 33 scientists, the morning included a range of presentations (see agenda here). The ISCN leadership presented updates on recent publications, activities, and synergies. Action group members presented updates on soil respiration and AmeriFlux data,… More

Stanford, California, Feb 27 to March 3, 2017. Fourteen scientists met to discuss and define research and data priorities for soil carbon science and for ISCN. Along with ISCN action group representatives and soil scientists with diverse research backgrounds, we drafted an article highlighting the converging needs of the soil carbon science and soil health communities… More

**January 2018 update: we will post the summary from AGU meetings at the end of this month! **December 7th, 2017 update: please note that if you signed up for the hackathon and/or the all-hands meeting and are not getting any emails from us, they might be going to your spam folder. For the all-hands meeting,… More

We thank Luke Nave for his hard work and service as ISCN coordinator for the last 7 years and welcome two new co-coordinators! Katherine Todd-Brown (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) will focus on data aggregation and strategic vision, and Avni Malhotra (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) will focus on communications and strategic vision. Avni is an… More

The agenda is now final for the pre-AGU ISCN meeting, to be held on Sunday, 11 December 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco! There is still time to complete the registration process for the meeting, so please follow this link if you plan to attend: <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LCD5BCY> Agenda 8:30 Welcome and Overview by… More

Come take part! We have scheduled the FIRST ANNUAL ISCN all-day all-hands meeting on Sunday, 11 December at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. We have reserved a room anticipating 100 participants. PLEASE RSVP by inserting this address into your web browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LCD5BCY Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco Agenda 8:30 ISCN Welcome and Overview… More

Go to Community > Collaboration opportunity and download our opportunity for leading an action group. Or click here: http://iscn.fluxdata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/gravity_forms/1-ecefccb42f5a963f63144e45ff645409/2016/06/Action-Group-Solicitation.pdf

Late in 2014 a collaborative team of investigators from the University of Colorado, Oregon State University, Virginia Tech, the University of Michigan, and the USDA-Forest Service began a project supported by NSF (MacroSystems Biology, EF-1340681) to understand mechanisms of SOM stabilization and vulnerability at the continental scale. The project is making use of intact soil cores… More